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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Badger vs. EDB Postgres vs. FeatureBase vs. Sphinx

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#309  Overall
#139  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financegithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.enterprisedb.comwww.featurebase.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsdocs.featurebase.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAxibase CorporationDGraph LabsEnterpriseDBMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20132017200520172001
Current release1558514, December 20212022, May 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentscommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoCGoC++
Server operating systemsLinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringnoyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.no
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyes infostandard with numerous extensionsSQL queriesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Go.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.no
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneMulti-source replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, using Linux fsyncyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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